Notes
Met Office add: Born 1896, Died 3 May 1915 aged 19 at Gallipoli. No known grave, remembered on the Helles Memorial. Walter probably joined the Meteorological Office around 1912 and by the summer of 1914 he was working in the Marine Division. Unlike others from the Meteorological Office he enlisted in the RNVR when war broke out (in keeping with his background in the Marine Division). Like many others he found that the Admiralty did not have enough ships to employ the number of Navy volunteers. Those unable to be found ships became the Nelson Battalion (the Nelsons) and were in effect soldiers in naval uniform. Greening, with 200 other Nelsons was killed during a dawn attack on a Turkish machine-gun position on a flat plateau with no cover.